{"id":25153,"date":"2020-06-15T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2597896"},"modified":"2020-06-15T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T12:57:00","slug":"facebook-new-feature-face-id-and-touch-id-in-messenger-for-ios-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/15\/facebook-new-feature-face-id-and-touch-id-in-messenger-for-ios-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook New Feature: Face ID And Touch ID In Messenger For iOS Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4127-logo-439.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.researchsnipers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Face-ID-Messenger.png\" width=\"435\" height=\"260\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.researchsnipers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Face-ID-Messenger.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Users of the iOS version of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchsnipers.com\/facebook-messenger-desktop-app-launches\/\">Facebook Messenger<\/a>&nbsp;can look forward to a new feature soon.&nbsp;The developers are currently testing the integration of Face ID and Touch ID.&nbsp;This is intended to improve the security of the chat app at the request of the user.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has&nbsp;confirmed this&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/facebook-test-lock-inbox-face-id-184615566.html\">Engadget<\/a>.&nbsp;In the future, Messenger users on iOS will have the option of protecting their chat histories.&nbsp;In the settings, it can be selected that authentication via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchsnipers.com\/apple-face-id-can-be-cracked-with-3d-mask\/\">Face ID<\/a>&nbsp;or Touch ID must be carried out when the app is opened.&nbsp;The user can specify that biometric authentication is only requested after a certain period of inactivity.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp has a similar function<\/p>\n<p>Facebook Messenger is not the only communication application that can be locked and unlocked by the user.&nbsp;Other services such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchsnipers.com\/whatsapp-is-getting-ready-to-allow-users-to-use-the-same-account-on-multiple-devices\/\">WhatsApp<\/a>&nbsp;also have such a function.<\/p>\n<p>Feature is still being tested<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the integration of Face ID and Touch ID should only be tested with a small number of messenger users.&nbsp;If there are no problems during the test phase, the new function should be available for all iOS users of Facebook Messenger.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet known when the feature will be available to all users.&nbsp;So far, the&nbsp;social media group has&nbsp;not given a specific date.&nbsp;Support for Touch ID and Face ID may already be delivered with one of the next updates.&nbsp;The corresponding update could be released in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchsnipers.com\/facebook-new-feature-face-id-and-touch-id-in-messenger-for-ios-users\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.researchsnipers.com\/facebook-new-feature-face-id-and-touch-id-in-messenger-for-ios-users\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Sheher Bano<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Sheher Bano<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4127-logo-439.png\" alt=\"\">Users of the iOS version of&nbsp;Facebook Messenger&nbsp;can look forward to a new feature soon.&nbsp;The developers are currently testing the integration of Face ID and Touch ID.&nbsp;This is intended to improve the security of the chat app at the request of the user. Facebook has&nbsp;confirmed this&nbsp;to&nbsp;Engadget.&nbsp;In the future, Messenger users on iOS will have the option &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/15\/facebook-new-feature-face-id-and-touch-id-in-messenger-for-ios-users\/\">Continue reading <span>Facebook New Feature: Face ID And Touch ID In Messenger For iOS Users<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/15\/facebook-new-feature-face-id-and-touch-id-in-messenger-for-ios-users\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Facebook New Feature: Face ID And Touch ID In Messenger For iOS Users - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/15\/facebook-new-feature-face-id-and-touch-id-in-messenger-for-ios-users\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Facebook New Feature: Face ID And Touch ID In Messenger For iOS Users - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Users of the iOS version of&nbsp;Facebook Messenger&nbsp;can look forward to a new feature soon.&nbsp;The developers are currently testing the integration of Face ID and Touch ID.&nbsp;This is intended to improve the security of the chat app at the request of the user. 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